When I joined OLPC in 2006, the first thing that blew my mind was the open collaborative process used across the project. The second was Mary Lou Jepsen's incredible sunlight-readable screen.
When the first prototype came to our machine lab, I used to stop in every day before heading home, to spend a few minutes looking at it or using it. The displays have a delicious matte quality (the original prototypes had a similar glossy one) that makes anything displayed on them look like a work of art -- not unlike the efRead the rest of this entry